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Αυτή η κληρονομιά εγκυμονεί κινδύνους για την ευαίσθητη Κάρεν. Για να μπορέσει ν' αποκτήσει το μισό από ένα μεγάλο αγρόκτημα, πρέπει να παντρευτεί έναν άγνωστο, το Σάρν Κάμερον. Αμέσως μετά από την τελετή όμως ο Σάρν την εγκαταλείπει κι εξαφανίζεται. Δυστυχισμένη και με πληγωμένο εγωισμό αποφασίζει να πάει στην Αυστραλία για να τον βρει και να διεκδικήσει την κληρονομιά της.
Εκεί ανακαλύπτει ότι είναι ερωτευμένη μ' αυτόν τον σκληροτράχηλο άντρα. Υπάρχει άραγε ελπίδα να τον κερδίσει ή μήπως η καρδιά του είναι για πάντα δοσμένη στη γοητευτική Χάριετ;
Εκεί ανακαλύπτει ότι είναι ερωτευμένη μ' αυτόν τον σκληροτράχηλο άντρα. Υπάρχει άραγε ελπίδα να τον κερδίσει ή μήπως η καρδιά του είναι για πάντα δοσμένη στη γοητευτική Χάριετ;
160 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1973
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Anne Hampson
169 books152 followersAnne Hampson was born on 28 November 1928 in England. At age six she had two ambitions: to teach and to write. Poverty after WWI deprived her of an education and at 14 she was making Marks & Spencer's blouses at one shilling (5p) each.
She retired when she married. Later, when her marriage broke up, she was homeless with £40 in her purse. She went back to the rag trade and lived in a tiny caravan. But she never forgot her two ambitions, and when Manchester University decided to trial older women she applied, and three years later had achieved one ambition, so set her thoughts on number two.
In 1969, her first novel, Eternal Summer, was accepted five days from posting and she soon had a contract for 12 more. From the caravan she went to a small stately home, drove a Mercedes and sailed on the QE2. From the first book, came over 125 more written for Mills & Boon, Harlequin and Silhouette. Alan Boon (the Boon of Mills & Boon) and she came up with the title for 'Harlequin Presents' over lunch at the Ritz. She suggested to Alan that they have a historical series. He told her to write one - it was done in a month, entitled Eleanor and the Marquis under the pseudonym Jane Wilby. She has the distinction of being number one in Harlequin Presents, Masquerade and Silhouette. Many of "Presents" have been reprinted many times (some as many as 16) and are now fetching up to $55, being classed as "rare" books.
She has had 3 awards, one at the World Trade Centre where she received a standing ovation from her American fans, who had come from many states just to meet her.
She was retired, but in 2005 she wrote two romance and crime novels, both of which were published by Severn House.
She passed away on 25 September 2014. She has been written her autobiography, entitled Fate Was My Friend.
She retired when she married. Later, when her marriage broke up, she was homeless with £40 in her purse. She went back to the rag trade and lived in a tiny caravan. But she never forgot her two ambitions, and when Manchester University decided to trial older women she applied, and three years later had achieved one ambition, so set her thoughts on number two.
In 1969, her first novel, Eternal Summer, was accepted five days from posting and she soon had a contract for 12 more. From the caravan she went to a small stately home, drove a Mercedes and sailed on the QE2. From the first book, came over 125 more written for Mills & Boon, Harlequin and Silhouette. Alan Boon (the Boon of Mills & Boon) and she came up with the title for 'Harlequin Presents' over lunch at the Ritz. She suggested to Alan that they have a historical series. He told her to write one - it was done in a month, entitled Eleanor and the Marquis under the pseudonym Jane Wilby. She has the distinction of being number one in Harlequin Presents, Masquerade and Silhouette. Many of "Presents" have been reprinted many times (some as many as 16) and are now fetching up to $55, being classed as "rare" books.
She has had 3 awards, one at the World Trade Centre where she received a standing ovation from her American fans, who had come from many states just to meet her.
She was retired, but in 2005 she wrote two romance and crime novels, both of which were published by Severn House.
She passed away on 25 September 2014. She has been written her autobiography, entitled Fate Was My Friend.
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October 21, 2018
H/h married in England, with the understanding it would only be for five years, so they could both inherit an Outback cattle station. Hero returns to Australia, heroine stays in England to be taken advantage of by her father and then her aunt. Now, after three and a half years, heroine has nothing - no job, no possessions, no prospects. Her doctor suggests she go to her husband and wait out her five years there. Then she'll have her half of the inheritance.
Heroine writes and gets no answer, but goes anyway. Two potential OMs take her the 800 miles to the station where the heroine finds a less-than-enthusiastic welcome. Hero has an evil sister, a "lame" sister, and a hot young evil housekeeper who wants to marry the H. Turns out no one knows he's married or that he only owns half of the station. Heroine decides on the spot to keep her true identity a secret.
The hero turns out to be a nice guy who can't see that the evil housekeeper is evil. He does know his older sister is evil and that she picks on his beautiful younger sister because ??? Who knows. She's evil. It's in her nature.
The rest of the story is the heroine trying to help the younger sister and falling in love with the hero while also doing touristy Outback things. The hero's mother shows up and she's evil, too!
Thankfully, one of OM's who has been hanging about the heroine finally musters up enough courage to offer marriage to the younger sister. After his sister's wedding, the hero feels free to tell the heroine how he feels. His declaration is very sweet and even has an element of vengeance - he wants to turf out the rest of his family and evil housekeeper and have their wedding night that night.
I was so happy that I was going to get the big reveal where the hero tells his mooching family that the heroine is his wife and half owner of the station and they need to get out like yesterday. And . . .
Nothing.
That was it. A kiss and a declaration and not one word devoted to the dawning realization and dismay on their smug little faces.
*sigh*
Vengeance. Comeuppance. Please authors. The hero had nothing to grovel for, so I can't demand that. But where's my justice?
Outback checklist:
Vast distances
Flora and Fauna list
Trip to Ayers Rock and Alice Springs
Private plane
Cattle talk
Homestead full of antiques
Heroine writes and gets no answer, but goes anyway. Two potential OMs take her the 800 miles to the station where the heroine finds a less-than-enthusiastic welcome. Hero has an evil sister, a "lame" sister, and a hot young evil housekeeper who wants to marry the H. Turns out no one knows he's married or that he only owns half of the station. Heroine decides on the spot to keep her true identity a secret.
The hero turns out to be a nice guy who can't see that the evil housekeeper is evil. He does know his older sister is evil and that she picks on his beautiful younger sister because ??? Who knows. She's evil. It's in her nature.
The rest of the story is the heroine trying to help the younger sister and falling in love with the hero while also doing touristy Outback things. The hero's mother shows up and she's evil, too!
Thankfully, one of OM's who has been hanging about the heroine finally musters up enough courage to offer marriage to the younger sister. After his sister's wedding, the hero feels free to tell the heroine how he feels. His declaration is very sweet and even has an element of vengeance - he wants to turf out the rest of his family and evil housekeeper and have their wedding night that night.
I was so happy that I was going to get the big reveal where the hero tells his mooching family that the heroine is his wife and half owner of the station and they need to get out like yesterday. And . . .
Nothing.
That was it. A kiss and a declaration and not one word devoted to the dawning realization and dismay on their smug little faces.
*sigh*
Vengeance. Comeuppance. Please authors. The hero had nothing to grovel for, so I can't demand that. But where's my justice?
Outback checklist:
Vast distances
Flora and Fauna list
Trip to Ayers Rock and Alice Springs
Private plane
Cattle talk
Homestead full of antiques
May 30, 2023
Hampson lite -- After reversals of fortune, plucky heroine goes to stay with her husband from a secret MOC and finds herself becoming more and more interested in staying. The H has relatives and an OW who is ostensibly an employee living with him, and suffice to say these women are VERY unhappy and unwelcoming when the h shows up without explaining that she is married to the H and actually owns half the estate. For example, they give her a room that is little better than a closet without an en suite bath.
Ongoing barriers are presented by these evil family members, but the heroine stays in control and even manages to think of others than herself. The H's sister is a nice character whose physical disability is treated sympathetically.
The H is very alpha, but it's a job-based thing with him -- he's a taciturn cattle baron who takes his responsibilities very seriously. He doesn't show a lot of affection for the h, so you need to look closely to watch his feelings evolve.
Ongoing barriers are presented by these evil family members, but the heroine stays in control and even manages to think of others than herself. The H's sister is a nice character whose physical disability is treated sympathetically.
The H is very alpha, but it's a job-based thing with him -- he's a taciturn cattle baron who takes his responsibilities very seriously. He doesn't show a lot of affection for the h, so you need to look closely to watch his feelings evolve.
August 26, 2014
This was a older HP, the premise was of a MOC and inheriting of a cattle station in the outback,Sharn lives on the outback and Caryn is coming to stay there as she has lost her home and been dumped by a boyfriend, she has nowhere to go and comes there expecting welcome or relief. Instead she is in a vipers nest, the former maid now secretary acts as woman of the house, Harriet is a B word , his sister Sandra runs things as well and she is equally offensive,. Sharn treats her like an unwanted guest and allows those vipers to treat her as well. I would have flat out told all them I own half and I am his darn wife and you get out of my house. Sharn was a lousy hero, and Caryn's stiff upper lip should have delivered a few stiff upper cuts to a pack of vicious B words. There is a HEA, although I am un-believing of it...lol. No romance or implied s&x at all... not a favorite...liked the premise but without a hero and allowing the entire book those hateful women to get away with their behavior and never get their whatfore in the reading of the book made it a disappointment.
February 19, 2012
After a disastrous relationship with Laurie and losing her rude Aunt, Caryn decides to travel to Australia to stay at a cattle ranch she owns half of and her husband is there. They married in haste in order to get everything accurate with a will.
When Sharn meets Caryn things come into effect that have been a long time coming. The people mooching off Sharn are rude to Caryn and she finally get a back bone. Eventually Sharn and Caryn fall in love for real and kick everyone out.
The book made me feel all good inside when I knew that the gold digging tramp Hariett wouldn't be marrying Sharn, I was soooo HAPPY!lol
When Sharn meets Caryn things come into effect that have been a long time coming. The people mooching off Sharn are rude to Caryn and she finally get a back bone. Eventually Sharn and Caryn fall in love for real and kick everyone out.
The book made me feel all good inside when I knew that the gold digging tramp Hariett wouldn't be marrying Sharn, I was soooo HAPPY!lol
April 30, 2025
“Unwanted Bride” is the story of Caryn and Sharn.
Underwhelming
Heroine and hero have a secret marriage of convenience to inherit a cattle station. They both move on, until the heroine is dumped and her doctor suggests she returns to her husband’s home/ property.
She shows up unannounced and is treated shabbily by his family and secretary. Forms good friendship with his sister, takes in loads of abuse and seethes in anger, keeps protecting the hero and then falls for him !? She then secretly pines for him until we get a rushed ending where they both are like “we know we moved on but like now I love you”.
Firstly, how desperate are you woman? I liked the heroine’s show of temper but she was so easily subdued to protect the hero. And I wish we got ONE scene of her telling naysayers off but alas..
What a waste of time
Unsafe
1.5/5
Underwhelming
Heroine and hero have a secret marriage of convenience to inherit a cattle station. They both move on, until the heroine is dumped and her doctor suggests she returns to her husband’s home/ property.
She shows up unannounced and is treated shabbily by his family and secretary. Forms good friendship with his sister, takes in loads of abuse and seethes in anger, keeps protecting the hero and then falls for him !? She then secretly pines for him until we get a rushed ending where they both are like “we know we moved on but like now I love you”.
Firstly, how desperate are you woman? I liked the heroine’s show of temper but she was so easily subdued to protect the hero. And I wish we got ONE scene of her telling naysayers off but alas..
What a waste of time
Unsafe
1.5/5
June 13, 2019
It got confused sometimes and the ending was a bit abrupt.
March 8, 2021
I don’t like it when the H ignores the h, when he looks at other women, when he doesn’t even try to kiss her. Until the last pages of the book. His confession of love to her just seems ridiculous considering what went on before that.
No attraction, no chemistry, no love, no lust, nothing.
The book starts with their marriage. They married so they could inherit whatever. He didn’t want to marry her. He wasn’t attracted to her at all. Immediately after the marriage ceremony he leaves, without even saying goodbye.
He would never in his life have seen her again if she didn’t go to the ranch where he lives, but was part her’s too.
No attraction, no chemistry, no love, no lust, nothing.
The book starts with their marriage. They married so they could inherit whatever. He didn’t want to marry her. He wasn’t attracted to her at all. Immediately after the marriage ceremony he leaves, without even saying goodbye.
He would never in his life have seen her again if she didn’t go to the ranch where he lives, but was part her’s too.
May 4, 2021
The inheritance was a joint affair, and Caryn and Sharn had to be married to qualify. Caryn hadn't seen the stranger she married since their wedding day. Then when she found herself without a home or a job, Caryn had no option but to go to Australia, to her husband.
For reasons of his own, however, Sharn had kept his marriage secret. No one knew he was her husband — least of all Harriet Watson, who planned to marry Sharn herself!
For reasons of his own, however, Sharn had kept his marriage secret. No one knew he was her husband — least of all Harriet Watson, who planned to marry Sharn herself!
March 10, 2016
This book was written in 1982 so I do have to give it some leeway. SPOILERS. When the heroine just traveled to a foreign country with two male strangers I'm like: girl you be careful! I gave this book three stars because I felt that the story was a little slow and I did not see this big Love that occurred with the main characters. The heroine was also recovering from a broken heart and her life seemed hopeless to her. I feel that she was on a rebound or was just too vulnerable and then the hero was just there so the heroine just fell into that. There were moments that the heroine showed a little fire but overall she was to quiet and slightly sad for me. The hero was just there. I didn't really feel drawn to him and towards the end of the book was where he became all lovey dovey with her. It was so abrupt to me. The love transition wasnt so smooth. plus the hero irritated me. I felt he didn't defend the heroine with his family and that other woman. ugh his horrible nasty family and other woman. In the end, he was going to boot them out and tell the truth but sadly we don't get to see the heroine's comeuppance :( I would have given it four stars just to see the family and other woman's face when they learned she was his wife.
April 7, 2012
I feel badly giving this such a low review given that this is such an obvious product of its time. But the characters and emotional tension would have to be pretty great for me to get really into a book where the characters don't speak of their emotions or kiss until the last couple of pages. It's just not that interesting to watch a heroine secretly pining away the whole book and otherwise spend all day walking around a ranch or doing something touristy. On the other hand, I did finish the book, so it wasn't 100% terrible.
October 5, 2015
This book left me with a smile on my face. This is a sweet kisses only romance that is going on my keepers list.
September 22, 2023
Yes and no. The heroine marries at 17 the hero who’s an Aussie she never even saw once before. They both inherited a farm in Australia on condition they get married. He’s interested and wants to work there, he gives her some money now and promises he will buy her out after five years, as written in the will.
She didn’t want but her father, an alcoholic, insisted so she unwillingly accepted.
After three years her father is dead and her aunt, a woman she was living with, dies leaving everything to charities. Furthermore, her boyfriend leaves her for another woman, since she can’t marry him for another couple years.
Her doctor is afraid she will be depressed so he suggests her to go to Australia for a while, since the house and the farm are half hers, and she hasn’t a penny in England.
She writes the hero, but there’s no answer, and she leaves anyway.
When she arrives there, courtesy of a neighbor who accidentally was on the same train as hers, she finds a very bizarre situation.
The hero has some people living with him in his house. There’s one sister with her husband, there’s another lame sister, there will be his mother, too, since she is now at some sister’s place, and there’s an ow, the secretary would be wife of the hero. Everyone except the lame sister are awful and treats the heroine with contempt and rudeness. She’s put in a small room near the house helps, and ow is nasty each time she sees her.
The hero asks her not to tell anyone they are married, and he tells them she’s a distant relative. Yeah dude. Right. Correct and very honest. Sure.
She accepts, since she doesn’t want to cause any discomfort even if she’s quite angry since half the property and all the money in it is hers. The girl has balls.
But she’s not yet 20, and alone, so she it’s understandable that she doesn’t want any further issues around her.
The hero offers to send her back with some money, the jerk, but she decides to stay, after hearing ow and nasty sister talking about what they will do with the hero’s money and house as soon as he marries ow.
The heroine has pride and strong character, and is even smarter than idiot dumb of a hero who doesn’t see past his cattle.
The man is not bad in itself, he’s only stupid and unable to understand that the people who are living with him are nasty parasites. Except lame sister, who asks the heroine to stay because everyone except the hero hates her.
The heroine get friends with lame sister, and she decides she also would think about having the hero on the side, since they are already married and he’s quite hot. He’s also attracted to her but quite clueless, and I must say it was quite fun to see the heroine flirt shamelessly with him and he falling like a teenager.
In the end, after some misunderstandings, he declares he’s in love with her and he wants to stay married, he will also get rid of all the relatives, and ow of course.
Not a lot of angst, here but a pleasant and slow burn romance.
The heroine is very young but not at all a martyr or a victim. She’s quite a determined young lady and is able to fend off ow and nasty sister in law and mother in law. I think she was the stronger of the two, the hero being quite passive and he even admitted he maybe oils have thought of marrying ow eventually if the heroine hadn’t come to Australia. But he never loved ow. And we don’t get to know if they got physical. Maybe, maybe not. But we can forgive him , since he was living in the outback at 800 miles from any town that could be named such. So women were a luxury. Poor man. He wasn’t a nasty guy but I found him quite meager and unfair. After all the house and farm were half the heroine’s. He also never told his relatives how he got them ,which is quite coward thing to do.
I wasn’t fond of him but the heroine was, and since she was quite a strong lady I think their marriage will be a success and she will do as she pleases, while he takes care of the cattle and such.
She didn’t want but her father, an alcoholic, insisted so she unwillingly accepted.
After three years her father is dead and her aunt, a woman she was living with, dies leaving everything to charities. Furthermore, her boyfriend leaves her for another woman, since she can’t marry him for another couple years.
Her doctor is afraid she will be depressed so he suggests her to go to Australia for a while, since the house and the farm are half hers, and she hasn’t a penny in England.
She writes the hero, but there’s no answer, and she leaves anyway.
When she arrives there, courtesy of a neighbor who accidentally was on the same train as hers, she finds a very bizarre situation.
The hero has some people living with him in his house. There’s one sister with her husband, there’s another lame sister, there will be his mother, too, since she is now at some sister’s place, and there’s an ow, the secretary would be wife of the hero. Everyone except the lame sister are awful and treats the heroine with contempt and rudeness. She’s put in a small room near the house helps, and ow is nasty each time she sees her.
The hero asks her not to tell anyone they are married, and he tells them she’s a distant relative. Yeah dude. Right. Correct and very honest. Sure.
She accepts, since she doesn’t want to cause any discomfort even if she’s quite angry since half the property and all the money in it is hers. The girl has balls.
But she’s not yet 20, and alone, so she it’s understandable that she doesn’t want any further issues around her.
The hero offers to send her back with some money, the jerk, but she decides to stay, after hearing ow and nasty sister talking about what they will do with the hero’s money and house as soon as he marries ow.
The heroine has pride and strong character, and is even smarter than idiot dumb of a hero who doesn’t see past his cattle.
The man is not bad in itself, he’s only stupid and unable to understand that the people who are living with him are nasty parasites. Except lame sister, who asks the heroine to stay because everyone except the hero hates her.
The heroine get friends with lame sister, and she decides she also would think about having the hero on the side, since they are already married and he’s quite hot. He’s also attracted to her but quite clueless, and I must say it was quite fun to see the heroine flirt shamelessly with him and he falling like a teenager.
In the end, after some misunderstandings, he declares he’s in love with her and he wants to stay married, he will also get rid of all the relatives, and ow of course.
Not a lot of angst, here but a pleasant and slow burn romance.
The heroine is very young but not at all a martyr or a victim. She’s quite a determined young lady and is able to fend off ow and nasty sister in law and mother in law. I think she was the stronger of the two, the hero being quite passive and he even admitted he maybe oils have thought of marrying ow eventually if the heroine hadn’t come to Australia. But he never loved ow. And we don’t get to know if they got physical. Maybe, maybe not. But we can forgive him , since he was living in the outback at 800 miles from any town that could be named such. So women were a luxury. Poor man. He wasn’t a nasty guy but I found him quite meager and unfair. After all the house and farm were half the heroine’s. He also never told his relatives how he got them ,which is quite coward thing to do.
I wasn’t fond of him but the heroine was, and since she was quite a strong lady I think their marriage will be a success and she will do as she pleases, while he takes care of the cattle and such.
July 15, 2024
An enjoyable read, but there’s really no romance here.
The heroine Caryn started off weakly. After being taken advantage left and right, even marrying a man she didn’t really want to for an inheritance, she finds herself sick and without a penny. That’s when, again after being advised to by her doctor friend, she travels to Australia in order to rest in the inherited ranch, where the husband in-name-only lives.
She’s surprised to then find out that not only he, but his whole family lives there quite comfortably, including his mistress, and most of them aren’t really nice people.
As she was ill-treated, I’m glad she showed some feistiness and was able to somehow stand her ground despite having decided not to reveal her marriage to the hero and hence her position in the house - I was disappointed though that the much anticipated reveal never really took place within the pages of the book.
The hero Starn seems like a nice enough fellow, but also not willing to reveal to his family that he married for the inheritance, nor make up some other credible explanation as to why the heroine has the right to be there. At least, his first thought upon hearing that Caryn was scared of managing her own money wasn’t “well, let me take advantage of this fool”.
For the most part, he seems oblivious to the evilness of his relatives and more so of his mistress. In reality, it seems that he wasn’t THAT blind, it’s just that he’d been dragging his feet the whole book.
Starn stops hoping the heroine just goes back to her own country after she forms a friendship with his younger sister.
It’s really a fairytale HEA finale, but most unsatisfying - as many are with this author =(
The hero literally spent the entire book going out with his mistress who, although not in the same room, lived in the same house and mistreated the heroine. Everyone, including the hero’s sister, believed they would eventually get married.
In fact, they’d most probably have got married, hadn’t he fallen in love with the heroine about the time the book was about to end. For it’s only in what seems the last sentences of the book that the hero and heroine are suddenly kissing, declaring their love for each other and discussing the consummation of their marriage ASAP, as in that same very same night.
The reveal of their actual connection and posterior eviction of the evil family from the mansion is planned to happen that same day, but sadly the book ends before that.
Caryn, who had previously been thrown over for another woman and thought would never love again, ended up pursuing a committed man (even though she was now thinking of him as “her husband”, there wasn’t anything meaningful between them), and ended up with a “husband” that literally until that very day was in the arms of another woman. No courtship, no romance, no nothing.
Not happy, no. A bit distasteful, IMHO.
The heroine Caryn started off weakly. After being taken advantage left and right, even marrying a man she didn’t really want to for an inheritance, she finds herself sick and without a penny. That’s when, again after being advised to by her doctor friend, she travels to Australia in order to rest in the inherited ranch, where the husband in-name-only lives.
She’s surprised to then find out that not only he, but his whole family lives there quite comfortably, including his mistress, and most of them aren’t really nice people.
As she was ill-treated, I’m glad she showed some feistiness and was able to somehow stand her ground despite having decided not to reveal her marriage to the hero and hence her position in the house - I was disappointed though that the much anticipated reveal never really took place within the pages of the book.
The hero Starn seems like a nice enough fellow, but also not willing to reveal to his family that he married for the inheritance, nor make up some other credible explanation as to why the heroine has the right to be there. At least, his first thought upon hearing that Caryn was scared of managing her own money wasn’t “well, let me take advantage of this fool”.
For the most part, he seems oblivious to the evilness of his relatives and more so of his mistress. In reality, it seems that he wasn’t THAT blind, it’s just that he’d been dragging his feet the whole book.
Starn stops hoping the heroine just goes back to her own country after she forms a friendship with his younger sister.
It’s really a fairytale HEA finale, but most unsatisfying - as many are with this author =(
The hero literally spent the entire book going out with his mistress who, although not in the same room, lived in the same house and mistreated the heroine. Everyone, including the hero’s sister, believed they would eventually get married.
In fact, they’d most probably have got married, hadn’t he fallen in love with the heroine about the time the book was about to end. For it’s only in what seems the last sentences of the book that the hero and heroine are suddenly kissing, declaring their love for each other and discussing the consummation of their marriage ASAP, as in that same very same night.
The reveal of their actual connection and posterior eviction of the evil family from the mansion is planned to happen that same day, but sadly the book ends before that.
Caryn, who had previously been thrown over for another woman and thought would never love again, ended up pursuing a committed man (even though she was now thinking of him as “her husband”, there wasn’t anything meaningful between them), and ended up with a “husband” that literally until that very day was in the arms of another woman. No courtship, no romance, no nothing.
Not happy, no. A bit distasteful, IMHO.
December 9, 2025
To Be or Not to Be
When Sharn and Caryn both inherit a property from a very distant relative under bizarre conditions, they find themselved forced into an unlikely marriage living in two separate continents. When Caryn's situation changes, under her doctor's advice, she finds herself travelling to Australia from England to seek help from her husband. Will he welcome her or send her packing? With many twists along the way, the story keeps you interested. Some characters you will hate, and others you will love. Worth reading.
When Sharn and Caryn both inherit a property from a very distant relative under bizarre conditions, they find themselved forced into an unlikely marriage living in two separate continents. When Caryn's situation changes, under her doctor's advice, she finds herself travelling to Australia from England to seek help from her husband. Will he welcome her or send her packing? With many twists along the way, the story keeps you interested. Some characters you will hate, and others you will love. Worth reading.
December 27, 2023
Caryn takes a chance
Caryn has endured quite a lot of disappointment in the lack of care from her father and lastly her aunt leaving her destitute and ill. She travels to Australia in hopes of recovering on the property she co owns with Sharn but incurs one obstacle after another. Her perseverance and the friendship of his sister, Mary are the only things that make her stay bearable. Good story that ended too soon.
Caryn has endured quite a lot of disappointment in the lack of care from her father and lastly her aunt leaving her destitute and ill. She travels to Australia in hopes of recovering on the property she co owns with Sharn but incurs one obstacle after another. Her perseverance and the friendship of his sister, Mary are the only things that make her stay bearable. Good story that ended too soon.
March 11, 2022
2.5 ⭐️⭐️. This is a blatant rip-off of a 1972 book called “Along the Ribbonwood Track” by Mary Moore. The summary was so similar that I thought I had forgotten to mark it as read. I know there are tropes that get repeated, but this storyline was so unique the plagiarism is obvious. The Mary a lore book was much better.
May 2, 2023
Sweet but basically boring hero. Heroine is sweet with a flashes of feistiness. Seriously awful family (not including lame sister, she’s a doll) and personal secretary cum other woman.
I was eagerly anticipating a scene where everyone FINALLY gets told off with some sweet sweet vengeance thrown in … and I was thoroughly disappointed.
Nothing. Zilch. Nada of the sort happened. How rude!
I was eagerly anticipating a scene where everyone FINALLY gets told off with some sweet sweet vengeance thrown in … and I was thoroughly disappointed.
Nothing. Zilch. Nada of the sort happened. How rude!
March 24, 2021
I enjoyed reading this book and remembering the places I had visited sometime ago. The ending of the story was underwhelming in my opinion in respect to all built up. It one star away for me.
March 24, 2024
A pleasant read.
A pleasant novel with a little angst.
Some of the “Australian” descriptions are not quite correct but all in all a nice quick read.
A pleasant novel with a little angst.
Some of the “Australian” descriptions are not quite correct but all in all a nice quick read.
not-for-me
September 21, 2024Ow drama
March 15, 2025
would’ve of been 5 stars if…
I would of rated it 5 stars if the part where he tells everyone who Caryn is to him and the land was added in the end. Didn’t like that it was left out.
I would of rated it 5 stars if the part where he tells everyone who Caryn is to him and the land was added in the end. Didn’t like that it was left out.
November 19, 2022
This was a typical Harlequin with how the story played out. The main characters were both strong; the female lead was definitely aware of her own worth and not a doormat.
The story progressed how you would expect with the requisite HEA. However, it ended abruptly! After all the couple went through but especially the female main character what she put up with in regards to the protagonists, we should have been privy to them receiving their marching papers and being told that the couple were married.
The story progressed how you would expect with the requisite HEA. However, it ended abruptly! After all the couple went through but especially the female main character what she put up with in regards to the protagonists, we should have been privy to them receiving their marching papers and being told that the couple were married.
September 19, 2024
Good premise. But she has nothing going for her except that she’s a poor misunderstood h. She doesn’t do anything except be a positive influence on a cousin (?) of the H. And it’s resolved very awkwardly.
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